Dear God, with the destruction of the O&A board, Diamond Dust has come to this board.
Sir O better be next to offset.
Can't it possibly be that he's STARTING to get over? I mean, geez, they've been jamming him down our throats (and actually have done a good job at that), and have made him look pretty good, so can't it be he might be starting to get over, or is it impossible that anyone who wasn't over a month ago could start? That's the same attitude that HHH has to up and comers: Well, he's not over, so he'll never be. Give Brock a chance. Geez.
Watched RAW tonight, and those miraculous Brock face chants have disappeared.
And don't look for him to set the world on fire when he's feuding against Undertaker or HHH. At this point, those two need someone to carry THEM. Brock's not up to that job yet.
What I don't like about Brock....3 reasons.
1. He's STILL heatless. He's STILL not over. You could argue that this should not necessarily be a factor in considering pushing him into the main event, but I think it's somewhat foolish to put him in the top spot, giving him the task of carrying the company, when there are more capable, believable guys (who just happen to be over). Such as RVD. Or Benoit. Or Angle. Hell, at this point, people would mark more for Michaels to have the belt again.
2. The way he's booked. There's two faults with it. I'll explain the next one in my third reason, but specifically I'm talking about his ring ability & moveset. He's a great amateur wrestler, right? Very technical? When have we seen that. It's all been 80s monster heel power move. He uses a fucking BEARHUG, for Christ's sakes. Angle has proved that you can use "real" wrestling, technical / amateur wrestling, and still get over.
3. The other way in which he was booked. It's just the disingenious way in which he was shoved down our throats. This was a calculated effort to create the next Goldberg, pure and simple. The problem is that they didn't do it NEARLY as well as WCW did. WCW sort of took Goldberg, and let him simmer for a while. He fought the jobbers, beating the shit out of Hugh Morrus or Jerry Flynn (not Lynn, mind you) every week. It was a slooooow build. Then when he finally started taking on the "name" talent, it meant more. From the very beginning, they hit us over the head with Brock. "He will be the guy we're going to force feed you for the next xxxx months."
I could give Brock a chance, but I absolutely do NOT think he's the right guy to be holding that belt. Not yet, anyway.
As much as I TRIED to hate it because of the two men involved, HBK v. HHH was a MOTYC in my opinion. Hopefully, this will be the start of the old workrate HHH coming back, which will make me hate him less for his politics.
I'll go out on a huge limb here and say that the old workrate HHH won't be coming back. Remember, he was fighting a fellow Cliq member, and a cripple at that - it didn't matter to him to job out to Shawn.
As for that being a MOTY.....sorry. Lynn v. Low-Ki vs. Styles for the NWA X title on 8/7/02 blows it away. And the ladder match between those three men scheduled to air this Wednesday could blow that away as well.[/quote]
<img border="0" src="http://Se7enRFNet.homestead.com/files/RFnetSe7en4.bmp" width="300" height="100">
WWFallon - livin' la vida lucha.
"Being a bastard WORKS."
--Spider Jerusalem
This message was edited by Se7en on 8-27-02 @ 12:26 AM